TY - GEN
T1 - EFFECT OF APPLICATION CHARACTERISTICS ON PERFORMANCE IN A PARALLEL ARCHITECTURE.
AU - Guzman, Adolfo
AU - Krall, Edward J.
AU - McGehearty, Patrick F.
AU - Bagherzadeh, Nader
PY - 1988
Y1 - 1988
N2 - A shared-memory, hierarchical, clustered architecture is reported. Measurements presented (including speedups) were obtained by running six different symbolic application kernels with varying architectural parameters. The results and graphs shown highlight the manner in which application characteristics place limits on achievable parallel performance, given particular architectural features. The discussion covers processor starvation, fine-grain parallelism, uneven loads, foreign reference, cost scheduling, and indeterminate computation with respect to the applications chosen. These measurements provide understanding of some of the interactions that take place between the architectural parameters and the specific applications and suggest ways to improve the architecture. To date the architecture has shown reasonable speedups on the chosen applications.
AB - A shared-memory, hierarchical, clustered architecture is reported. Measurements presented (including speedups) were obtained by running six different symbolic application kernels with varying architectural parameters. The results and graphs shown highlight the manner in which application characteristics place limits on achievable parallel performance, given particular architectural features. The discussion covers processor starvation, fine-grain parallelism, uneven loads, foreign reference, cost scheduling, and indeterminate computation with respect to the applications chosen. These measurements provide understanding of some of the interactions that take place between the architectural parameters and the specific applications and suggest ways to improve the architecture. To date the architecture has shown reasonable speedups on the chosen applications.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0023830316&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/hicss.1988.11762
DO - 10.1109/hicss.1988.11762
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:0023830316
SN - 0818608412
SN - 9780818608414
T3 - Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Science
SP - 167
EP - 173
BT - Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Science
PB - IEEE
ER -